hi athlon users !

we dont seem to be able to narrow down the problems on athlon/geforce desktop lockups so lets start a poll and see if there are athlon users that can run 3.78 without lockups ..

please reply: (example and my config)
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_athlon_: 500

_board_: gigabyte 7ix

_nvidia_card_: creative geforce sdr

_driver_results_:

3.66 beta driver runs stable in d3d, opengl and on desktop - i use powerstrip to force 1x agp

3.78 (and all other betas above 3.66) produce random lockups on desktop - no matter if powerstrip 1x agp force and without powerstrip at all

and yes i did a complete old driver remove (deleting oem*.inf,nv* files)

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please reply even if it works perfectly for you with 3.78 or everything else!

thanks

Well, I don't have a GeForce video card, but I do have a TNT2 card by Diamond. Whenever I use the drivers later than 3.65 (I don't have 3.66), I get random lockups that require a hard reboot. Here are my specs:

AMD Athlon 500@700
196MB PC100 RAM
Asus K7M MB
Diamond TNT2
Adaptec 2940UW Pro SCSI Card
Creative SB Live Value
Quantum 13G 7200 UDMA66 Drive

All the hardware and drivers for Win9X work just fine. Just these Nvidia drivers.

-Q

Hi,

I too get these horrible lockups with my Athlon system, and latest drivers.

Athlon 550 (week 29) @ 700MHz
Microstar 6167
Creative TNT2 Ultra
3.78 plays all games fine, but at random intervals the computer totally locks up. I can be playing a game, or browsing the internet - no difference - locks up, and it's certainly not heat or the overclocking. I even pulled the Freespeed Pro off my Athlon and it still crashes with the 'official' Nvidia drivers.

Brendan

Same here - I have an Athlon 700 machine with the DDR GeFoce and version 3.78 drivers - I dont get random lock ups as much as I used to (except for today when it went quite insane at one point) but they're still sooooooooooo annoying - never seems to happen in games, just on desktop, can be doing anything - surfing, IRC - anything

Exorcist

My Athlon is a 550@650 1.8volts on a K7pro and 256Megs Crucial ram in Banks 1&3, and a 3D Prophet SDR card.

I noticed that when running 64megs of ram the computer was absolutely stable.
I had severe problems with the 3.75 drivers then I switched to the 3.78 drivers the minute they were released and the problem was less prominate.
So anyway after testing with 64 and >64 I noticed desktop freezes consistantly and quickly with 128megs in any configuration.
64 megs the system was rock stable.

I changed the boot to os/2>64 to yes in bios and raised the core voltage from 1.75 to 1.8.

So far it locked up twice within 10 mins then was stable for the last 15 hours. Games and everything else. Gosh Im tired.

I also notcied the crashes occured when the desktop had absolutly nothing happening on it or I was in a control panel or properties page. If I was playing an opengl game the machine wouldn't crash until I got out of it.

Wierd eh? But I have been stable since last night with no hiccups. I hope the next release of drivers are better.

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Here's my system specs:
Athlon 550@650 1.8 volts
K7Pro -->Can't wait to get the new 133board.
256Megs of Crucial PC133 ->Cas2 @ 100MHZ FSB
Windows 2K Professional
3D Prophet Geforce SDR 135core / 190mem
SB Live
Cambridge Soundworks DT2500 (put in my own sub) :-)
13.6 MAxtor UDMA66/ 7200rpm/ 2MB Cache
50x generic CD-rom
4x2x8 Mitsumi Burner
NEC Zip 100 Atapi
Intel Pro100+ Nic
416/416 SDSL 3com 1meg modem
Sony 20" running Desktop at 1280x1024x32@75Hz
Antec 303x blah blah blah Tower
..Oh and an Athlon sticker proudly displayed on the case.